Academic achievement; Chinese learners; Life satisfaction; Personality; Resilience; Academic Success; Adolescent; Burnout, Psychological; China; Depression; Female; Humans; Latent Class Analysis; Male; Personal Satisfaction; Schools; Social Participation; Students; Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health; Developmental and Educational Psychology; Psychiatry and Mental Health
Abstract :
[en] This study contributes to understanding students’ emotional responses to academic stressors by integrating grit into the well-established Job Demands-Resources Model and by examining the relationship between academic demands, grit (consistency of interests, perseverance of effort), burnout, engagement, academic achievement, depression, and life satisfaction in Chinese students. We conducted a self-report study with N = 1527 Chinese high school students (Mage = 16.38 years, SD = 1.04). The results of structural equation modeling showed that after controlling for gender, socio-economic status, and school types, demands positively related to burnout and negatively related to engagement. Both facets of grit negatively related to exhaustion, whereas only perseverance of effort positively related to engagement. Burnout positively related to depression and negatively related to life satisfaction, whereas engagement positively related to life satisfaction. However, neither burnout nor engagement was related to academic achievement. Our findings indicate that grit may be protective against school burnout.
Disciplines :
Treatment & clinical psychology
Author, co-author :
TEUBER, Ziwen ; University of Luxembourg > Faculty of Humanities, Education and Social Sciences (FHSE) > Department of Behavioural and Cognitive Sciences (DBCS) > Cognitive Science and Assessment ; Department of Psychology, Bielefeld University, Bielefeld, Germany
Nussbeck, Fridtjof W.; Department of Psychology, University of Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany
Wild, Elke; Department of Psychology, Bielefeld University, Bielefeld, Germany
External co-authors :
no
Language :
English
Title :
The Bright Side of Grit in Burnout-Prevention: Exploring Grit in the Context of Demands-Resources Model among Chinese High School Students
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